DEEP PURPLE Announces 'The Long Goodbye Tour'

Legendary rockers DEEP PURPLE have announced the “The Long Goodbye Tour”, set to take place at the end of 2017.

This will be the chance to see the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame inductees, one of the most iconic bands ever, in support of their brand new studio album, “inFinite”, which is released by earMUSIC early in 2017, preceded by the first single out January 20.

Ian Gillan, Roger Glover, Ian Paice, Steve Morse and Don Airey, Mark VIII of the band, continue to travel the scope of hard rock — the textures and nuances of recent works are anything but thudding retreads. If you set a random play setting for the band’s entire catalogue, the result is one of the finest musical outputs to grace rock music.

The latter-year PURPLE has moved progressively into new areas, piquing fans’ interest who were not born when the mighty PURPLE machine ruled the music world’s money trees. Their holy grail of “In Rock” (1970), “Machine Head” (1972) and “Made In Japan” released in 1973 catapulted DEEP PURPLE to the top in concert grosses and album sales around the world, with track “Smoke On The Water” ascending to mega-status.

Having amassed so many songs that get coined under the “classic” moniker, setlists have been a never-ending debate among diehards and newer fans especially with the most recent album, “Now What?!”, landing in the Top Ten across the globe. The last chapter of a career strong of over 120 million albums sold, it has sold to date over half a million copies and the band have sold over a million concert tickets since its release alone. The band’s videos “From The Setting Sun In Wacken” and “To The Rising Sun In Tokyo” charted on the same day at No. 1 and No. 2 in U.K.’s music video charts proving the fascination the band’s shows have on their audience.

DEEP PURPLE “The Long Goodbye Tour” U.K. dates:

Nov. 17 – Barclaycard Arena Birmingham
Nov. 18 – Manchester Arena
Nov. 20 – Cardiff Motorpoint Arena
Nov. 22 – SSE Hydro Glasgow
Nov. 23 – The O2, London

Support on the trek will come from Swedish hard rockers EUROPE.

Tickets go on sale Friday, December 9 at 9 a.m. from www.aeglive.co.uk.

Fonte: Blabbermouth.net